Faculty

Professional interest

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Knowledge of technical, scientific, and technological subjects to enable learning new methods and technologies, as well as endowing the student with great versatility for adapting to new situations.

Ability to design, plan, organize, and control systems, processes and components that meet the needs of society within actual environmental conditions.

Ability to develop projects within the field.

Creativity and imagination within the field of engineering and architecture.

Capacity to write, represent, analyze, and interpret technical documentation and data relevant to engineering and architecture.

Ability to prepare reports and expert opinions based on critical analysis of realities in the field of engineering.

Ability to communicate and convey knowledge between expert and non-expert environments.

Capacity to update knowledge independently with a constant willingness to do so.

Capacity for planning, design, drafting, and signing projects in construction, remodeling, repair, conservation, demolition, manufacturing, installation, assembly, and the exploitation of moveable and immovable goods and property that due their nature and features are included within the very techniques of agricultural and farm production (installations and buildings, farms, infrastructure, rural roads), the agro-food industry (extractive, fermentation, dairy, canning, fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, salted fish industries, and in general, any other dedicated to the preparation and/or processing, conservation, handling, distribution of food products), and gardening and landscaping (urban and/or rural green spaces, parks, gardens, greenhouses, urban forest, etc., public and private sporting installations, environments undergoing landscape recovery).

Adequate knowledge of the physical problems, technologies, equipment, and water and energy supply systems, the limits imposed by budgetary factors and building regulations, the relationships between installations and/or buildings with farms, agro-food industries, and spaces related to gardening and landscaping with their social and environmental surroundings, as well as the need to relate those from that environment with human needs and environmental protection.

Ability to lead the execution of works on projects related to agri-food industries, farms, green spaces and their facilities, infrastructure and installations, the prevention of risks associated with their execution, and the direction of multidisciplinary teams and human resources management in accordance with ethical standards.

Capacity to draft and sign measurements, segregations, subdivisions, appraisals and assessments within rural areas, techniques belonging to the agri-food industry and the spaces related to gardening and landscaping, regardless whether they possess expert reports for legal or governmental bodies or not, and independently of the use for which this moveable or immovable good and property is destined for.

Ability to draft and sign studies of rural development, environmental impact, and waste management for agri-food industries, farms and ranches, and for spaces related to gardening and landscaping.

Skills for directing and managing all kinds of agri-food industries, farms and ranches, urban and/or green spaces, public or private sporting areas, with knowledge of new technologies, processes of quality, traceability, and certification, and marketing techniques for food products and cultivated plants.

Knowledge of basic, scientific, and technological matters that enable continuous learning, as well as a capacity to adapt to new situations and changing environments.

Leadership, communication, and transmission of knowledge, skills, and abilities in social fields of action.

Ability to search for and use the rules and regulations relative to the field of action.

Ability to develop activities, assuming a social, ethical, and environmental commitment in tune with the reality of the human and natural environments.

Capacity to work on multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

Specific competencies

Ability to recognize, understand, and utilize the principles of decision making with the resources available for work in multidisciplinary groups.

Ability to recognize, comprehend, and utilize the principles of technology transfer; understand, interpret, communicate, and adopt advances in the field of agriculture.

Ability to recognize, understand, and utilize the principles of the basis and technology for horticultural, fruit, and ornamental propagation and production. Quality control of horticultural products. Marketing.

Ability to recognize, understand, and utilize the principles of engineering in green areas, sporting areas, and horticulture.

Ability to recognize, understand, and utilize the principles of agricultural and landscape engineering.

Ability to recognize, understand, and utilize the principles of hydrology; erosion; plant material production, use, and maintenance; ecosystems and biodiversity; physical environment and climate change. Analysis, management, and land use planning. Landscaping principles. Specific design and graphic expression tools; practical development of environmental impact studies; environmental and landscaping restoration projects. Projects and maintenance plans for green spaces. Development projects. Tools for spatial and landscape planning. Projects and works management and planning.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01dentify a large number of tree and plant species.

02Know the proper distribution of plant species within the green areas.

03Design and calculate technically and economically the irrigation of green areas.

04Knowledge of the types of pruning ornamental trees

05Know the seeds for the formation of lawns

06Determine the most important work to be done in maintaining the natural green areas throughout the year.

Grading

Theory (60%) The theory exam will be short question type and consist of 3 questions per topic so that students demonstrate the knowledge acquired , Exercise Practices (20%). The student must solve a practical exercise in irrigation design and calculation of the economic costs of a particular creción green zone based on a technical and económicops data that shall be provided. Personal work (10%). The student must design a garden of about 1000 m2 and expose, in accordance taught in class and own criteria. The presentation and exhibition is essential to present a theory Identification of plant species (10%). Ten plants of a power point that is provided students with a single failure should be identified.